Switching over

Dad took my Xbox away, so now I'm gonna get into PC gaming. I don't have a lot of money so what's a decent build for a laptop and how much will it cost me? When I say decent I mean I want to play as many games as smoothly as possible. My current specs

I do not recommend a laptop for gaming since they are over priced and not customizable. I would recommend buying a desktop or even better build one. If you are planning on buying a desktop I would say do not buy Alienware they are over priced. I would recommend a desktop with at leased a 660ti video card, and an i5 3570k and at about 8 GBs of RAM. For a build like this it would cost about $900. You can of course go cheaper, but newer games will start to struggle a little bit at mid to higher graphics settings.

Here is a link to a desktop that you can buy that could handle most games at higher settings. I do understand that this might be above your price range. What is your price range anyway, so I can get a better idea of what you could buy?

If you're not spending at least $1200 on a desktop then it's not worth doing. If you're thinking of a laptop, you're looking at closer to $2000 for something that still won't be worth getting because it will become out dated relatively faster than a high end desktop. My advice is try to get your xbox back.

My advice is to first take a hint from your dad and spend a few less hours gaming and more being productive, which is probably why he took your console away. I mowed lawns during the summer for cash and bought an N64 back in the day. You will need to save at least $1,000 for a decent gaming PC. Your current computer is good for surfing the web and it would be a waste of money trying to load a modern game onto it.